Example:--

’Tis pretty, sure, and very probable,

That eyes, that are the frail’st and softest things,

Should be called tyrants, butchers, murderers.

=Metonymy=.--Metonymy is a figure of rhetoric in which the name of one

object is put for another, the two being so related that the mention of

one recalls the other.

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